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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
You chose your sources, not me.
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
I require at least some evidence. Your own source says there is none.
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
Your own source [2] says: > But to be clear, there is no evidence DARPA or the U.S. intelligence services had any role in the creation of Facebook.
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
> This is, of course, a nod to the classic comedy sketch by Vihart As a big fan of Vi Hart I was surprised to read that she wrote or was involved in that "classic comedy sketch". As far as I can tell, after a few minutes search
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
Many of the advances in biology in the middle of the 20th century were also helped along by physicists who switched to biology, often inspired by Schrodinger's What is Life? (1946). The list includes Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, a
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
Yes, that’s why they have lawyers submit briefs and make oral arguments.
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
AI "neutrality" is a mirage. Hopefully the Supreme Court justices are smart enough to know that.
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
> AI might give them good reasons for pros and cons. This is what lawyers do, in their briefs and oral arguments before the court.
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
I was very pleasantly surprised when they sent me free replacement hardware to reassemble an old ikea twin bed model that had been discontinued a number of years ago. I assume they use the same hardware in other models they still sell.
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
It's not cheap, though. Two weeks ago I bought a computer with a similar form factor (GMKtec G10). Worse CPU and GPU but same 16GB memory and a larger SSD for 40% the price of a base mac mini ($239 vs $599). It came with Windows preins
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
This site is extremely uncomfortable to read on mobile (iOS).
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
At least nobody can accuse them of not dogfooding enough.
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by CrazyStat 7mo ago
A friend of mine tries to bake a spherical pie for pi day (March 14) each year, with varying approaches (and levels of success).
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by CrazyStat 8mo ago
Are you involved in writing or maintaining this software? If so can you provide some more details on this “filtering”? Because I skimmed the source code [1] and it looks to me like it’s pure brute force building a database of lines and poin
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by CrazyStat 8mo ago
Is there? I followed the link[1] to the original author of the desktop software this web app is derived from, and he says: > To make a long story short, by the third generation of ReferenceFinder (written in 2003), I had incorporated all
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by CrazyStat 8mo ago
The CBO estimates [1] that foreign exporters bear 5% of the burden of the tariffs, with American consumers bearing the remaining 95%: > [T]he net effect of tariffs is to raise U.S. consumer prices by the full portion of the cost of the t
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by CrazyStat 8mo ago
Blendle [1] had this model for a while but shut it down a couple years ago. It was nice to have to option to buy individual articles from publications that I enjoy reading occasionally but not enough to subscribe. [1] https://www
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by CrazyStat 8mo ago
ROT13 is cheap enough that you can afford to apply it many more times. I use one million iterations to store passwords securely.
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by CrazyStat 8mo ago
One of my favorite bits of my PhD dissertation was factoring an intractable 3-dimensional integral \iiint f(x, y, z) dx dy dz = \int [\int g(x, y) dx]*[\int h(y, z) dz] dy which greatly accelerated numerical integration (O(n^2) rather than
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by CrazyStat 8mo ago
The premise of the singularity concept was always superhuman intelligence, so it’s not so much a parallel as a renaming of the same thing. > In Vinge’s analysis, at some point not too far away, innovations in computer power would enable
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by CrazyStat 8mo ago
I think you mean a Poisson process rather than a Poisson distribution. The Poisson distribution is a discrete distribution on the non-negative integers. The Poisson process’s defining characteristic is that the number of points in any inter
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by CrazyStat 9mo ago
For anyone one confused, the first part is an approximate transliteration into Cyrillic of the English sentence “Much like how you can/could spell English in Cyrillic.”
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by CrazyStat 9mo ago
Quite possibly. If they care a great deal about not contributing to training LLMs then they should still be aware of the fair use issue, because if the courts rule that it is fair use then there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle.
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by CrazyStat 10mo ago
The legal premise of training LLMs on everything ever written is that it’s fair use. If it is fair use (which is currently being disputed in court) then the license you put on your code doesn’t matter, it can be used under fair use. If the
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by CrazyStat 10mo ago
You can grasp for vague conspiracy theories about “the money printer”, or you can sit down and think about the concrete factors that make demand for labor (i.e. capital investments in buildings and equipment) less elastic than supply for la
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by CrazyStat 10mo ago
Srsly? Srsly. > The nonsense isn't just that they're assuming a point probability, it's that, conditional on that point probability not being true, there's only a 2% chance that theta is .5 += .01. Whereas the actual
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by CrazyStat 10mo ago
A few points because I actually think Lindley’s paradox is really important and underappreciated. (1) You can get the same effect with a prior distribution concentrated around a point instead of a point prior. The null hypothesis prior bein
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by CrazyStat 10mo ago
> Both parties can get 3 times as much money as they did previously. Increased productivity shifts the supply curve which will (unless demand has zero elasticity, which is unrealistic) lower the market price of the good. So tripling prod
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by CrazyStat 10mo ago
In a perfect world everybody would be putting careful thought into their desired (acceptable) type I and type II error rates as part of the experimental design process before they ever collected any data. Given rampant incentive misalignmen

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